Kernel panic when system boots with message "kobject_add failed for ipmi_bmc.17 with -EEXIST"

Issue

• After a power recycle of one of our blade servers, we receive kernel panic - not syncing fatal exception, shortly after a couple of services have been started.
• The following error message is seen:

kernel: kobject\_add failed for ipmi\_bmc.17 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory